Re: Problem with null dates in 7.2

Shouldn't you be using,

SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar_date IS NULL?

"= null" got phased out, I believe.

David

"Jon" <xilj_74(at)hotmail(dot)com> wrote in message
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> I've just compiled 7.2 under HPUX 10.20 and upgraded my data from 7.1.3
> (followed the upgrade guide verbatim). I now have a big problem trying to
> select date types with null values. The following example gives 0
results,
> although some do exist -
>
> select * from foo where bar_date=null;
>
> Under 7.1.3 the above query returns results .. I can insert a date and
then
> update it to null, but the query just doesn't work! Everything else seems
> to be working as expected.
>
> I haven't seen this mentioned as a bug, did I miss something in the
release
> notes perhaps? Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>
>